Building Self-esteem and Self Confidence

Welcome! If you are interested in strengthen or building
self-esteem and self confidence. This site was created for you in mind. It's full of instruction, information
help, tips and tools, for people who want to improve themselves. I think most of us
have heard that it is important to live a positive life but don't know how
important it is in building your self-esteem and confidence.

Having a positive attitude is the key to being happy and leading a successful
life, our thoughts play a huge role in how we feel and positive thinking leads to a confident
person happy in life, while negativity leads to low self-esteem and you missing out on so much in
life. We so often talk ourselves out of things without even realizing we are doing so, everyday
hundreds of negative thoughts drift freely through our mind, we put ourselves down too much
and sow the seeds of doubt. There is a small simple tool that you can use throughout the
day to help to change these negative thoughts and instill a more positive way of thinking;
using daily positive affirmations can change your life drastically for the better.

They can make you more confident, more aware, more sure of yourself and change your life

What are positive affirmations?

Positive affirmations can be used throughout the day anywhere and at
anytime you need them, the more you use them the easier positive thoughts will take over
negative ones and you will see benefits happening in your life. An affirmation is a simple
technique that is used to change negative self-talk that we are rarely even aware of doing,
into looking at your life with a more positive attitude. Most of us have for many years
bombarded ourselves with negative thoughts so changing your thoughts and the way you
think wont happen overnight but if you stick with affirmations they will work once
you have retrained your way of thinking. There are many different affirmation
techniques for dealing with different situations in life and the most popular and
successful are listed below.

The mirror technique

This technique helps you to appreciate yourself and develop self-awareness
and self-esteem, you should stand in front of a mirror, preferably a full length one in either
just your underwear or better still naked. Start at your head and working down your body say
out loud what it is you like about areas of your body, for example you could say I like the
way my hair shines, the slight differences in color where the light hits it or my eyes are
a lovely shade of _ _ _ _. They sparkle and glint; my eyes are a wonderful feature take the
time and go slowly over all your body building up a more positive image of yourself.

The anywhere technique

This technique can be used anywhere and whenever you catch yourself thinking
a negative thought, when you realize you are having a negative thought think of yourself
turning down a volume knob inside your head so that you turn it down low enough so as not to
hear it any longer. Then think a positive affirmation to replace the negative and turn the
volume back up repeating it to yourself.

The trashcan technique

If you have negative thoughts write them down on a scrap of paper, screw
the paper up into a ball and throw it into the trashcan, by doing this you are telling yourself
these thoughts are nothing but rubbish and thats where they belong

The meditation technique

Find somewhere quiet where you able to relax for 5 or 10 minutes close your
eyes and let your mid empty of all thoughts and feelings. Begin to repeat your affirmation to
yourself over and over again while concentrating on the words you are repeating and believe in
what you are saying.